Surrey Fire officers getting called out on a shout. First shown: 13/01/1976 Filmed in 1975 If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com Quote: VT11998
@@thomasmellard304 They're still fitted to a lot of modern vehicles, but they rarely use them ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j7mEgXOW0Bg.html
We had two of those Ford Ds at my local station when I was a kid. Ours never had bells though. But I do remember ours took forever to start up too! And the sound of those heavenly two-tone horns takes me right back.
I love these old films. I remember just about everything we rode and used in the 70's was British. Bedford, ERF, Ford, Leyland, AEC, Dennis, HCB Angus, Shelvoke and Drury, Carmichael, Simon Snorkel, Commer, Merryweather. One station I was on had a Bedford HCB-Angus WrL with a 4.2 litre Jaguar petrol engine. Now it's all Volvo, Mann. Mercedes and Scania.
@@koolyman dont know but now automatic transmissions are in large cars and trucks mainly where auto is the only option but you can get most cars in manual and auto
Us old hands remember how things were ,no radio ,fire flash call by G, P,O ,phone ,nuck early warning ,1 min to turn out times ,no sea belts ,only 2 b,a sets ,& loved the job
Great clip. Reminded me very much of being a lad. There was several retained firefighters that lived near me. You could tell when they got a call as they used to race off down the road in their cars, engines racing and tyres squealing. Sometimes me and my friend would jump on our bikes and pedal like mad the mile-and-a-bit to the station to catch them turning out. Over the years the fire engines were Bedford TKs, Ford Ds (like the first-away above), and then Dennis RSs. I stopped chasing them by the time they became Sabres and Scanias. Well, on my push bike anyway!
I was 5 when my dad joined back in 1983 and me and my older brother used to follow him down the station on a shout and lock up after they had gone great days them now I'm in myself and occasionally he returns the favour
Considering the year this was filmed, how did those Fire Tenders get their Brakes off so quickly?, my old man used to run Ford D series Trucks in the 70’s and building the Air up could take 10minutes on a cold day.
Bloody hell I thought I was seeing things at first! Firefighters actually in a hurry to turn out rather than strolling and (much worse) swaggering about without a care in the world. Or was the film sped up?
YelpBullhorn, no you wasn't seeing things, them were the days when firemen were firemen 60secs too turn out put your gear on as the machine was on the way. As you say today they take for ages to turnout
Guildford had a third pump which was retained. Half the crew worked at the Dennis Factory. In 1989-1990, the brigade bought a fleet of Mercs to the consternation of Dennis, who allegedly threatened to stop letting the crew attend from work as a result.
@@jamesfrench7299As a fellow Aussie (not born and raised in the 70s), I am aware that the NSW Fire Brigades did use Ford D’s around 1974, but they were the smaller D200’s (unlike the larger D600 as seen in the vid). Plus they probably wouldn’t have been seen in metropolitan Sydney too often as the FB used the D200s for retained stations in the regional/country towns.
That’s odd why dose it have a bell on top of the fire engine if it has a siren sort of like fireman sams classic fire engine I know some fire engines had bells and sirens but they were mostly old Dennises
Every station had a bell like that, they were phased out and replaced by sounders under good old health and safety, as they deemed bells were too harsh on the ears.
Ruairi Donnelly bells were retained in rural locations until the late 1980s (and possibly later) as they were considered to be less frightening to livestock.
UKWMO carrier reciver set wb400 on shelf next to PA Microphone 0:14 designed to warn of a nuclear attack there were probably air raid sirens on this fire station that needed to be sounded as soon as the message ATTACK WARNING RED came through followed by a wailing tone.
When I first joined the fire service there was one of the early warning devices in the watchroom at Slough. It went off one night, I told my Sub officer who said just ignore it....... hence to say false alarm but I nearly died of a heart attack hearing it.....
@@billlin2659 I remember Humberside having a similar ARV in the early 1990s based at Goole, which is just off the M62. It was a white, Range Rover Carmichael, with the extendable floodlights on the roof. Regularly saw it shooting past my school heading to a smash on the motorway. Beautifully built vehicle.
No, probably a command unit, BA Tender, anything that's non firefighting. Fire Services in the UK cannot have ambulances, as that's the job of the Ambulance Services. But they can have medically trained members in their ranks, similar to American Fire Departments.
